Note 417 — Chapter XII · WILLIAM THE LION—1165–1214.

In 1123–24 Alexander, just before his death, appointed Robert of Scone to the bishopric of St. Andrews, and he appears to have deputed John of Glasgow to maintain the liberties of the Scottish Church at the court of Rome. In 1124–25 John of Crema, the papal legate, was empowered to settle the points in dispute, subject to the final approval of the pope; and in 1128 Archbishop Thorstein consecrated Robert “Sine professione et obbediente pro Dei amore et Regis Scotiæ ... salva querela Eboracensis Ecclesiæ et justitia Ecclesiæ Sancti Andreæ.” Sim. Dun de Gestis, 1124, 1125. Ang. Sac., vol. 2, p. 237, quoted in Hailes’ Annals, vol. 1, p. 76. It is curious to contrast the account of Simeon with that of Stubbs (Twysden, p. 1719). According to the chronicler who wrote two centuries and a half after the events which he describes, Thorstein grounded his claims upon the assertion that the king of Scotland was the liegeman of the king of England; whilst the contemporary Simeon confines the dispute strictly to ecclesiastical points; though the ill success of the English advocates provoked him into writing “Scotti dicebant stulta garrulitate, etc.!”